abstemiously betydelse and definition

Exempel på abstemiously

• Desserts are allowed when you are on a diet, but they should be eaten abstemiously.

• The thought is enough to drive you to drink but Alison soldiers abstemiously on.

• The author defines the middle class abstemiously, as those who spend $3 -10 a day.

• Never could my abstemiously inclined forebear have guessed what fortunes were entwined with the humble cocoa bean, although it seemed full of promise: a touch of the exotic.

• He lived abstemiously and worked incessantly, literally day and night.

• Stimulants and narcotics never act so quickly upon persons accustomed to use spirits freely as upon those who live abstemiously.

• He rises early, lives abstemiously and works until far into the night.

• He eats alone and very abstemiously.